CHAPTER XXXIV.
Elsie Banks Returns Bonner, considerably annoyed and alarmed by the marshal's actions, made every effort to turn him back before he could ruin everything by an encounter with Mr.Barnes.He sent men on bicycles and horseback to overtake him; but the effort was unsuccessful.

Mr.Crow had secured a "ride" in an automobile which had brought two newspaper correspondents over from Boggs City.

They speeded furiously in order to catch a train for New York, but agreed to drop the marshal at the big bridge, not more than a mile from Judge Brewster's place.
Chagrined beyond expression, he made ready to follow Anderson with all haste in his own machine.

Rosalie hurriedly perfected preparations to accompany him.

She was rejoining the house party that day, was consumed by excitement over the situation, and just as eager as Bonner to checkmate the untimely operations of poor old Anderson Crow.
The marshal had more than half an hour's start of them.